FORT MYERS -- The committee responsible for naming fish in the Americas has changed the common name of Florida's largest grouper species from jewfish, which some found offensive, to goliath grouper.

I ran into a huge jewfish back in the days when they still were jewfish. It was staring out from an underwater outcropping in the Gulf of Mexico, like a Hummer parked in a garage. Jewfish resemble ...

The common name "grouper" is slapped on more than two dozen species of fish now swimming around the Atlantic Ocean, including mutton hamlets, speckled hinds, coneys, Jewfish and scamps. But when ...

Few names, words or ideas are so incendiary as those associated with specific ethnic or religious groups. Chief Illiniwek may be only a University of Illinois mascot, but there are reasons why his ...

Jack Rinehart, of Captain Jack’s at the port, logged in perhaps the best catch of the week, made by Capt. Kelly Johnson of Tallahassee. Johnson boated a 135-pound spotted jewfish during a night trip ...

One bite: that's all it apparently took for a grouper to eat a 4-foot shark in a video posted to YouTube, according to user Gimbb14. The user says the Goliath Grouper was circling the black tip shark ...